Email gets a bad press. Are you excited about a few days off from that tyrant this weekend? Or will you stay wired with your blackberry or iphone, despite the groans of others? Are you looking forward, with suspense and anticipation (or dread), to the full inbox when you are back from a few days off?

Regular readers will note our attention to the downside of trying to manage our inboxes on mobile devices with hard to handle keyboard functions. We think the downside of the continual skimming that these bits of kit enable and encourage, is little energy left at the end of the day for actually dealing with the messages.

We like horizon scanning for the next emerging technology that will help companies move beyond their suffocating email cultures – cultures informed by the old rules of syntax for formal letter writing coupled with the overwhelming speed of the information revolution.

This article defending email as an internal communication tool, is a useful contribution to the thinking on the role and use of email in personal and organisational productivity.

HAVE A GOOD BREAK

Tags: communication, working life